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My first 3D prints arrived from Shapeways. I printed a prototype for my project “Shadow Cabinet” and some InstantReality gears. A great new technology is waiting.

Mozilla Bespin is great. With the embedded version and jQuery you can create a live coding editor with two lines of code.

Thus i wrote an experimental X3DOM live coding page over the weekend. Write X3D code on the left and see the results on the right. I hope to integrate it on the X3DOM examples pages soon.

Try the editor

Florian Jenett invited me to give a talk about AR, cultural heritage, user experience and open standards at Basis Frankfurt yesterday. Here are the slides. Images are following.
BasisFrankfurt_100601.pdf

Meet me tonight at ARE2010 in Santa Clara. I’ll give a talk about AR and open standards at the “AR in a box – An X3D solution” event of the Web3D Consortium via Skype.

Google announced encrypted search yesterday. In order to use it in the browser’s search bar i quickly created an opensearch plugin via searchplugins.net. Just added the ’s’ to http://.

Download and install
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Jens and i wrote the first AR demo based on WebGL and X3DOM. It uses FLARToolkit / FLARMaganger for marker tracking and renders via X3DOM. The superimposed model is a globe with NASA satellite texture with live clouds.

The Flash file for tracking and Javascript communication will be open source and available soon. There will be a compiled version with exchangeable markers, too. Thus you don’t have to touch Flash anymore.

Link to AR demo (you’ll need a supporting browser)